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262139_Scripps_01-13_r2.qxd 11/3/06 10:17 PM Page 1 THE WOMEN’S COLLEGE • CLAREMONT TheArt issue Scripps Magazine • Fall 2006 262139_Scripps_01-13_r2.qxd 11/3/06 10:17 PM Page 2 editor’sPAGE The Artful Dodge I HOPE THE IMPORTANCE OF ART in our lives at Scripps and the value we place on it speaks for itself within these pages. There are times when it’s an editor’s job to let others have the use of the hall.This is one of them.Tenisha Harrell ’07, who accepted Scripps’ offer last fall to continue her education here after Hurricane Katrina closed down her university, sent the message below to the Scripps community. Mary Shipp Bartlett Greetings to my fellow students, faculty, staff, and administrators, I am filled with several emotions as I send this e-mail of gratitude to each of you! For this day one year ago, September 14, 2005, I arrived at Scripps College from Xavier University in New Orleans to be welcomed with an enormous amount of warmth. Many families, students, children, homes, schools, churches, universities, and other institutions have not and perhaps may never recover from Hurricane Katrina. However, here I sit a year later blessed to: 1) have continued my education, 2) have shelter with food, 3) know where my family is, as they know where I am, 4) have a sound mind, body, with spirit, 5) be acclimated to the Scripps community smoothly due to openness/involvement, 6) have a better appreciation for life knowing that change is constant and sometimes without warning and 7) be encouraged to live a life that calls me to give above and beyond all that has been bestowed upon me. My pastor charged our congregation one Sunday to “outlove” others! Tenisha Harrell ’07 This past year has poured out many victories as well as some struggles.As I sit in a time of reflection due only to grace, I realize I have shared and continue to share this year’s journey with each of you in some form. Though I want to thank you each individually for the unique way you have added to my life, it matters more that you know, as a collective group, your acts will always remain dear to me. My prayer remains to be that Louisiana will rise up and be exposed to the opportunity that I have had. Our Scripps community has allowed me to think back in a spirit of remembrance and look forward to change joined with hope. Live a beautiful today! Thankfully in faith, Tenisha Harrell 262139_Scripps_01-13_r2.qxd 11/3/06 10:17 PM Page 1 vol.78NO.4 DEPARTMENTS IFC EDITOR’S PAGE 2 BROWSING ROOM Campus news and events. 12 PERSPECTIVES Bruce Coats writes on Japanese woodblock print artist Chikanobu; Eric T.Haskell, on Mallarmé and the book arts at Scripps. Alumnæ News 38 LETTER FROM LORI STEERE 39 DIANO HO REMARKS 40 ALUMNAE SPEAK: “MY FAVORITE PROFESSOR” 44 CLASS NOTES Post Scripps 52 “THE COURTAULD EXPERIENCE” by Jennifer Spears Brown ’00 Mary Shipp Bartlett EDITOR Margaret Nilsson Sarah Cook ’07 MANAGING EDITOR works on a portrait for her Pauline Nash advanced painting class. ASSISTANT EDITOR Matt Hutaff WEBMASTER, STAFF WRITER FEATURES Laura Benson ’10, Alysha Chan ’09, Lindsey Galloway ’07, Holly Haymaker ’08, 15 The Treasures Jamie Horowitz ’07, Jennifer Loesch ’09, The Scripps College collections hold a magnificent, and often surprising, array Susana Lopez ’09, Ilona Zbirun ’10 STUDENT INTERNS of work by prominent artists. Mary David MacNaughton ’70, director of the Catherine Pyke ’79 Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, reveals how Scripps acquired this art, how it ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION LIAISON is cared for and displayed, and future plans for the collections. Lime Twig Group DESIGN 22 The Teachers Dual Graphics Scripps art and art history professors offer a wealth of talent and experience. PRINTING Ian Bradshaw: IFC (above), BC, p. 12 26 The Visionaries Kristy Campbell: p. 5 Suzanne Ely Muchnic ’62 looks at how Scripps alumnae are making their mark Jason Foong: p. 6 Matt Hutaff: p. 8 in all corners of the art world. Darby Carl Sanders: IFC (below), pp. 10-11, 22 Joel Simon, p. 13 32 The Last Witnesses Bill Youngblood: FC, pp. 2-4 Professor Ken Gonzales-Day’s dramatic photographs of California oaks bring Ilona Zbirun: p. 1 attention to the little-known history of lynchings in California. PHOTOGRAPHY Fall 2006: Vol.78, No. 4. SCRIPPS,The Women’s College, Claremont (USPS #486-940) is published quarterly by Scripps 36 Ensnaring the Moment College, Office of Public Relations and Communication. Thoughts on the intersection of photography and poetry by Leah Ollman ’83. Periodicals postage paid at Claremont, California. Copyright ©2006.All rights reserved. Postmaster: Send address changes to Scripps College, Office of Public Relations and Communication, Cover: Stone carving by Albert Stewart, on south side of Vita Nova 100, circa 1960; 1030 Columbia Ave., Claremont, CA 91711-3948. mosaic background by Denis O’Connor. Photograph by Bill Youngblood. Printed on recycled paper. FALL 2006 SCRIPPS COLLEGE 1 262139_Scripps_01-13_r2.qxd 11/3/06 10:17 PM Page 2 browsingROOM Scripps Welcomes New Faculty Each time new members join the Ou’s academic areas of inter- est are Calderon-Zygmund faculty, the College welcomes fresh harmonic analysis, the study of certain operators that arise nat- ideas and perspectives into its rich urally in partial differential equations; mathematical imaging, and distinctive academic heritage. and mathematical linguistics. Ou, who has practiced martial arts for 20 years, has started This fall, Leigh Gilmore an Aikido club on became the first occupant of campus this year. the Dorothy Cruickshank Backstrand Chair in Gender WINSTON CHIH-WEI OU and Women’s Studies. Ethnomusicologist Cándida Jáquez came to the Department Her scholarly articles and of Music this fall teaching two courses on music traditions around books have made considerable the world.According to Hao Huang, chair of the Music Department, contributions to the field of “She is an ideal person to bring an ethnomusicology program to autobiographical theory; they fruition at Scripps. She has a wealth of scholarly and pedagogical include Autobiographics:A expertise in world music and media studies, and she contributes to Feminist Theory of Women’s the breadth and diversity of our curriculum and perspectives.” Self-Representation (Cornell Professor Jáquez’s research interests include musical and LEIGH GILMORE University Press 1994), cultural expression in the Chicano communities and identity, per- Autobiography and Postmodernism (University of Massachusetts Press formance, traditions, and 1994), and The Limits of Autobiography:Trauma and Testimony history of Latino popular (Cornell University Press 2001). music. “To study autobiography is to learn about history, psycho- Prior to her appointment analysis, culture, philosophy, law,” she said.“Autobiography offers at Scripps, Jáquez was a pro- a rich understanding of culture—it is wonderfully interdisciplinary.” fessor in the Department of Professor Gilmore received her bachelor of arts, master’s, and Folklore and doctoral degrees in English from the University of Washington Ethnomusicology at Indiana and recently taught in the Department of Rhetoric at the University, Bloomington. She University of California, Berkeley, and as professor of English earned her master’s degree in at Ohio State University. ethnomusicology from the University of Texas,Austin, Scripps’ newest member of the Department of Mathematics, CÁNDIDA JÁQUEZ and her doctoral degree in Professor Winston Chih-Wei Ou, names mathematics, martial musicology at the University of Michigan,Ann Arbor. arts, and music as his life passions (in addition to his fiancée, he is quick to point out). The College also welcomes visiting professors Adam Davis and After receiving his bachelor of arts in mathematics from Heidi Brevik-Zender. Adam Davis joined the Department of Art Princeton University, Ou obtained his master’s and doctoral this fall as a three-year visiting professor of ceramics. Before com- degrees from the University of Chicago; he then held a post- ing to Scripps, Davis taught at the University of Arizona, San doctoral fellowship at the Institute for Mathematics and its Diego Mesa College, and Georgia College and State University. He Applications in Minneapolis. Joining the Scripps faculty last spring, received his MFA at the University of Arizona and his BS in art he previously taught at Purdue University and Indiana University, from the University of Wisconsin. Davis has been included in U.S. Bloomington, in addition to being a visiting research fellow at and international art exhibitions since 1992 and was recently the Keio University in Yokohama, Japan. featured artist in an exhibition at the Athens Institute for 2 SCRIPPS COLLEGE FALL 2006 262139_Scripps_01-13_r2.qxd 11/3/06 10:17 PM Page 3 Contemporary Art in Athens, Georgia. Odell Named Top Economic Heidi Brevik-Zender, a three-year visiting professor of History Teacher French, earned her MA and PhD in French studies at Brown University. She taught at the University of California, Santa Kerry Odell, the Mary W. Johnson Professor in Teaching, Barbara, and served as assistant editor for three years for the has won this year’s Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence publication Equinoxes,A Graduate Journal of French and Francophone in Teaching Economic History, presented by the Economic Studies. Professor Brevik-Zender’s research interests include cultural History Association. The annual award recognizes an out- and gender studies, in addition to French literature and culture. standing teacher of economic history in the United States, Her PhD dissertation,“From Fashion Writing to Writing Fashion: Canada, and Great Britain. Recent recipients have Modernity, Gender and LaMode in the Literature of Fin-de-siècle included professors from Amherst College, Harvard Paris,” examines the ways in which University, Oxford University, and UC Berkeley.